#Thatcher

Anna Llewellyn

DrAnnaLlewellyn

A thread - some thoughts on Liz Truss and that Foucault speech, which has really troubled me. So, anyone who has even a miniscule understanding of Foucault, would agree that

Scott Bryan

scottygb

17. When Matt Hancock finished a @BBCBreakfast interview in the most Matt Hancock way possible 18. When Matt Frei on @Channel4News finished his bulletin by shouting “BBC NEWS” instead of

Alex Taylor

AlexTaylorNews

So now it really is goodbye, and it hurts. On a storm-filled Sunday, here's a thread (OK ! my 3rd in 8 years !) on why Brexit has affected so

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

‘Thomas Abt of the Council on Criminal Justice, in Washington, says data so far for 2020 suggest “the largest single-year increase in homicides ever reported in the US’The ‘Ferguson Effect’?

Robert Colvile

rcolvile

.@alexwickham has further blood-curdling briefing this morning on the No 10 wars. But there is a theme in there which sounds warning bells for the future (1/?) I worked on

Dr. Zanye (PhD Royal Studies)

bookedbusy

You know! I live for the mess that is Richard Kay so let's see what we wrote and what it really means. "With previous series, despite the jarring of fact

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 16th instalment of #deanehistory.Diana Rowden served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, & then Special Operations Executive.She died in a concentration camp when she was 29 years

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

You hear lots about how tech monopolies arose due to supposedly inevitable factors like "network effects," but you don't hear much about banal, sleazy tactics that were banned until the

Sarah Betts

WromanticHistry

So one of the things I sort of missed during my time away from twitter was a lot of the reaction to Season 4 of the Crown and particularly the

Football Threads

FootyThreads_

My favourite Liverpool songs/chants.A thread. First, the most famous song in football, this beautiful rendition of YNWA vs Dortmund. My favourite video of ‘Fields of Anfield road’.Goes round the whole

Michael Harris

MichaelH_PhD

I can walk you through this if you’d like.Let’s start in the ‘60s. We could start earlier but that’s a useful starting point.https://twitter.com/eiggam5955/status/1337568643492814848 The Civil Rights era is a time

Esquire UK

EsquireUK

In the final episode of s4, we leave the royal family as Charles and Diana's marriage is about to break and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher leaves office after 11 years

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

Ed is an interesting, insightful and usually perceptive writer but he has completely failed to understand that the dystopian - and entirely unprecedented and ahistorical - reaction to this virus

Vic #HumanRaceIsOne Singh ☬⚒️🇬🇧⚒️☬ #FandomMenace

vicsinghb

MEDIA - My Views - A Thread1) Back in the 80's - the Media backed Thatcher against the Miners -but in my gut I knew the media was wrong -

Anton Jäger

AntonJaegermm

This 2015 LRB letter contains one of the most convincing counterarguments to Mair's "ruling the void" thesis - the civil society crisis is real, yes, but asymmetrically, not quite for

Dr Arlene H-H

DrArleneHH

⁦⁦@JuliaGillardGPE⁩ ⁦@GIWLkings⁩ is interviewing ⁦@YvetteCooperMP⁩ about her book ‘She Speaks: women’s speeches that changed the world’. Shining a light on the power of women’s voices from Boudicca to Greta Thunberg.

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